By Praise Chinecherem
Fresh facts have emerged revealing that the women that staged nude protest against police over alleged crime surge in Awka were hired.
Over 1000 indigenes of Awka community, including women had on Wednesday, protested alleged killings of their husbands and sons, accusing some top senior Police officers of masterminding the killings.
The protesters, drawn from twenty villages of four quarters, insisted that Deputy Commissioner of Police, Akin Fakorede and Inspector Monday Umana should either be transferred or sacked.
They carried a coffin and placards with read “DC Fakorede must go ” , Akin Fakorede is a corrupt police officer “, Inspector Monday Umana must be sacked”.
A source told our correspondent that the women were paid N500,000 each to protest against the police.
“They were hired from a neighbouring state for the job ‘, the source said.
But a leader in the community dismissed the protesters as fake, insisting the protesting nude women were not from Anambra.
The leader who pleaded anonymity for security reasons said, ” How do you think those women are from Awka? Are you not aware of the inner pride of an Awka person
“Let’s not even talk about Awka. Can an Igbo woman go nude in her community? That’s not possible. Those women were hired.
Corroborating the source, State Police Command in a statement, challenged the protesters to provide it with the names and addresses of those they claimed were dead so the Command could visit them and find out how their husbands died.
The statement read in part, “Emerging Facts from the Naked Women Protest in Awka, against the Police Command: If they say that the naked women in the protest against the Anambra State Police Command are widows from Awka, let them provide us with their names and addresses so the Command can visit them and find out how their husbands died.
“They should provide the names of those arrested and the date suspects were brought to the command by Blue Shield Operatives before they were later released by the Police as they claimed. “
